Scott T. Peterso
New Member
Hi All,
I'm having a bit of a "time" getting a CNC machine to work with my computer.
I had an ancient computer donated by a member of a CNC discussion group running my CNC foam-cutting machine. All was well for 7 years til that computer coughed up a lung recently...no desire to fix it.
I have another, less ancient computer lying about...figured, "Use that one". It had no parallel port, so I grabbed a PCI Parallel Port Card (Koutech PP110) and installed it. The machine runs, but there are some inconsistencies that lead the software designer (CNC machine software) to believe that the parallel port is not in EPP mode as required. The card is supposed to "auto configure" but apparently hasn't as the driver board I've built is pretty simple and doesn't speak unless spoken to by, what else, a correctly-configured parallel port.
When I built the CNC machine, I had an old Dell and had fried the parallel port by being stupid...I got a card, plugged it in, loaded drivers, configured it in the BIOS, and was off and running. Since there was no parallel port in this latest machine originally, there's nothing in the BIOS that would allow me to go this route.
I've hit the end of the card Mfr's support. The CNC discussion groups say to get a new (old) box to run my machine. (I have enough unreliable junk, thank you!) HP was useless as my situation is a bit "fringe" for their catch-most-problems support folks.
Anyone have a solution?
Regards,
Scott
System is a pretty stock Compaq Presario SR 1820NX, Model No. ER919AA (added 1GB memory and a PCI video card to run dual monitors)
Still with WinXP SP3
Bios Rev. 3.01 (02/09/2006)
I'm having a bit of a "time" getting a CNC machine to work with my computer.
I had an ancient computer donated by a member of a CNC discussion group running my CNC foam-cutting machine. All was well for 7 years til that computer coughed up a lung recently...no desire to fix it.
I have another, less ancient computer lying about...figured, "Use that one". It had no parallel port, so I grabbed a PCI Parallel Port Card (Koutech PP110) and installed it. The machine runs, but there are some inconsistencies that lead the software designer (CNC machine software) to believe that the parallel port is not in EPP mode as required. The card is supposed to "auto configure" but apparently hasn't as the driver board I've built is pretty simple and doesn't speak unless spoken to by, what else, a correctly-configured parallel port.
When I built the CNC machine, I had an old Dell and had fried the parallel port by being stupid...I got a card, plugged it in, loaded drivers, configured it in the BIOS, and was off and running. Since there was no parallel port in this latest machine originally, there's nothing in the BIOS that would allow me to go this route.
I've hit the end of the card Mfr's support. The CNC discussion groups say to get a new (old) box to run my machine. (I have enough unreliable junk, thank you!) HP was useless as my situation is a bit "fringe" for their catch-most-problems support folks.
Anyone have a solution?
Regards,
Scott
System is a pretty stock Compaq Presario SR 1820NX, Model No. ER919AA (added 1GB memory and a PCI video card to run dual monitors)
Still with WinXP SP3
Bios Rev. 3.01 (02/09/2006)
